Unzipped

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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies

Unzipped

New 4K Restoration—Opens October 9

Designer Isaac Mizrahi proved a force of nature on the road to his legendary fall 1994 collection, a career-defining triumph that was documented with an effervescent intimacy by Douglas Keeve, Mizrahi’s then-partner. Both a time capsule of the buoyant, raucous 1990s, when pop culture and high art became interchangeable, and a vérité-style, in-the-trenches report on the daily agonies and ecstasies of the creative process, this seminal artistic portrait—sumptuously shot by Ellen Kuras and Robert Leacock—transcends glitz and glamour to offer an extraordinary view of the charisma and force of will inherent to genius, as well as its personal costs.

Digitally restored by the Sundance Institute and UCLA Film & Television Archive. Funding provided by Isaac Mizrahi Entertainment. Laboratory services by Roundabout Entertainment, Inc. and Deluxe Media Audio Services.

"Mizrahi lives so publicly, always surrounded by friends and associates, always talking, that Unzipped gives us a good sense of who he is, even without personal details."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Though uncritical of NY designer Mizrahi, [Unzipped] is everything that Altman's... Ready to Wear should have been: An insider's view of the fashion world that's hip, light, authentic, revelatory, and always amusing."
Emanuel Levy, Variety


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